Car-coupling



(NI-o Model.) v B.-. F. RIDER.

GAR GOUPLING.

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BENJAMIN F. RIDER, OF CRO'IHERSVILLE, INDIANA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,275, dated October 22, 1895.

Application filed February 18, 1895. Serial No. 538,865. (N o model.)

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Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. RIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grothersville, in the county of Jackson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Car-Coupling, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings. v

The object of the present invention is to improve the vconstruction of car-couplings and to provide one which will be simple and inexpensive in construction, positive and reliable in operation, capable of coupling automatically, and adapted to be readily uncoupled without going between cars.

.A further obj ect of the invention is to dispense with the ordinary pin-and-link coupling, but to enable the link to be used, if necessary.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterl fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car-coupling constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing two draw-heads coupled.

Like numerals of reference indicate correspending parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 designates a draw-head secured to a car 2 in the ordinary manner and provided at its bottom at one side with a rigid forwardly-extending horizontally-disposed arm 3 and located above the arm at the top of the drawhead with a horizontally-disposed outwardly extending pivoted hook 4, terminating short of the outer end of the arm, whichy serves as a bumper, and which is adapted to prevent the pivoted hook from coming in contact with another draw-head and being injured.

The upper face of the arm 3 is slightly beveled, and the inner end of the pivoted hook 4 is slightly enlarged and rounded at the rear edge or face and arranged in a socket of the draw-head. The draw-head is provided adjacent to the arm 3 and pivoted hook 4 with a rigid or fixed horizontally-projecting hook 5, laterally offset from the said arm and pivoted hook and located opposite the interval or space between the same and adapted to inter- A lock with the pivoted hook of a corresponding draw-head and to lit under the same between the pivoted hook and the arm. This mannerof interlocking forms a firm and positive coupling, and sufficient play may be provided to enable cars to round curves without cram ping the couplings.

The pivoted hook is connected by a chain 6 with an arm or loop 7 of a transverse rockshaft 8, journaled on the car 2, and terminat- Aing at the sides thereof in handles. An L- shaped spring 9 is mounted on the car and is located above the central arm or bend of the rock-shaft, and when the latter is swung upward the horizontally-disposed portion of the spring frictionally engages the arm of the rock-shaft and retains the same against outward swinging and is adapted to hold the pivoted hook elevated to prevent coupling.

The draw-head is adapted to couple with cars having the ordinary pin-and-link carcoupling, and for this purpose coupling-pin perforations 10 and 1l are provided in the pivoted catch and the arm for the reception of a coupling-pin 12.

Any suitable means may be employed for enabling the pivoted hook to be operated from the top of aboxfcar or the platform of a coach.

It will be seen that the car-coupling issimple and inexpensive in construction, that it is positive and reliable in operation, thatit is capable of automatic coupling, and that it does not necessitate going between cars to uncouple them.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

1. A car coupling, comprising a draw-head, a fixed arm located at the bottom of the drawhead and projecting horizontally therefrom, a pivoted hook located above the fixed arm and terminating short of the same, and a rigid hook projecting horizontally from the front of the draw-head and laterally offset from the arm and the pivoted hook, and located opposite the space or interval between them, substantially as described.

2. In a car coupling, the combination of a draw-head, a fixed arm located at the bottom' IOO of the draw-he ad andprojectinghorizontally shaft and arranged to engage the same for therefrom, a pivotedhook locatedabovethe holdingl the hook el "av"a;ted,y substantially as fixed arm and terminating short of the same, described.

a rigid hook laterally offset from the pivoted In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I5 5 hook and the arm, and located opposite the my own I have hereto afxed my signature in space or interval betweenmthe saine and-l-prolthe-presence of two Witnesses.

jecting horizontally from' the drawh'ead," a

rock-shaft designed to be mounted on a car BENJAMIN F. RIDER. and provided with an arm connected `With the Vitnesses: 1o pivoted hook, and a spring having a project- ED FORSYTHE,

ing portion located above the arm of the roek- JOHN A. COX. 

